Perhaps it's not a problem..., page 1

The TAC are very clear about this sort of thing... The general rule is... if you are a member in good standing for six months, you can ask us (the owners/admins) for permission to post a link to your personal, not for profit/non merchant website in your signature. We generally allow all of these.

Naturally if someone has written a good article in their blog that they believe the membership of ATS would be interested in then by all means post a snippet and a link to the article.

BUT...

If your blog is geared toward selling a product or is a merchant/for profit site (selling DVDs or Books for example) then it is not allowed. We've had several people in the past who were trying to hawk a book they wrote attempt the old "end around" by posting snippets out of their book with a link back to the site they sell the book on. These were trashed and if the person didn't stop their account was banned.

Naturally we understand that it would be a sweet deal to get the attention of the grand ATS membership to sell a book on the topics of interest here. We understand this because companies pay good money to advertise here. It is not fair for us to charge one company and allow another company to advertise for free, it's not smart business either.

PLEASE do alert anyone you see abusing the system here or anyone who plugs a link to their site in every post they make.

Thanks!

Springer...

[edit on 12-15-2008 by Springer]